Madeleine Cravens

Madeleine Cravens is the author of the poetry collection Pleasure Principle (Scribner, 2024). Her writing can be found in The New Yorker, The Nation, Kenyon Review,  Best New Poets and elsewhere. Madeleine was a 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was a recipient of the Max Ritvo Poetry Fellowship. She has been recipient of additional fellowships from MacDowell, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute. She was raised in Brooklyn and lives in Oakland.